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August 5, 2026
Midweek: show quilts delivered + top-along finished from With Strings Attached


 Monday's mail brought the good news that two quilts I entered in the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show have been accepted.   Though there's a lot on my to-do list, there was nothing on the calendar yesterday and I drove the long way through the countryside to deliver the quilts to Nancy Zieman Sewing Studio in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.   It's a bright and cheerful quilt shop in downtown Beaver Dam.  (Nancy's Notions warehouse used to be in an industrial park on the edge of town.)  


I did not buy a thing at the shop (fortitude!).  Instead I visited ...

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August 22, 2022
Lemonade Week from With Strings Attached

 Our long-anticipated Alaska trip did not turn out as we planned. The outbound travel (O'Hare to Sitka by way of Seattle) was very disorienting for my husband.  Fortunately we could get flights home that evening/night, including a nonstop overnight flight from Anchorge to O'Hare.   I'm calmer now as I type this but you can well imagine that at the time I was *beyond* upset.   On the positive side, once we got home his mood stabilized.  


I declared it Lemonade Week, as in "when life gives you lemons...."   We had several enjoyable day trips during a week ...

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